Windom Earle All Stars - A Series of Minor Personal Tragedies (2006)

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Windom Earle

9.4

/Electro-punk, Chip punk, Prog-indie, Avant-punk, Synth pop, Experimental rock, Art rock, Dance rock, Electronic pop/

Comment: what the heck, this is an experienced, frenetic combo of 6 musicians from Halifax, Canada offering up 14 electro, primitive electro/8-bit/chiptune and prog-drenched punk ditties (even hardcore and shoutcore-loaded songs are up here). Clever lyrics, huge feeze, intricate compositions - in a word, all what shall have to be presumed to create a gritty pop album on its own. For instance, you must listen to Potato Potato, a breathtaking notch with gleaming, blissed-out electro groove. More profoundly, if you are searching for some kindred souls, I recommend listen to Xiu Xiu, Ooberman, Deerhof, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, Clinic, and Hipster Youth.

Klever - Trip#5

Fragmenti - Музика за Плашење Деца и Нервирање Возрасни (2011)

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Lastfm

9.0

/Dark ambient, Organic electronica, Dark wave, Musique concrète, Minimalism, Experimentalism, Conceptual, Avant-garde/

Comment: Fragmenti is a musician from Macedonia, who used to come from the same nest wherefrom artists such as Sferi, and fydhws came forth (a group named as NGC 147). Just one, 27-minute track is represented here which relies on the loop of a bass line incessantly throbbing onward being backed up by organic electronica-hued yet ghastly backdrops and minimal changes throughout the c(o)urse. In conclusion, you can see the references drawing upon the minimal drone works by La Monte Young and Angus Maclise, and on the other side, tributing the views of darkwavers and obscure ambient musicians. It is said that the issue is compiled of a kind of music to scare children and annoy adults.

The Sundog Project – The Sky Moved Overhead (2009)

Xynthetic

8.7

/Martial music, Neoclassical, Experimental electronica, Remixes, Dark pop, IDM/

Comment: Ian Johnson aka The Sundog Project from Cheltenham, UK offers up one original track of him and thereafter remixing of a pair of tracks by Creepy Candles. There can be detected for a tendency to mix up electronica and IDM-esque paces with piano chord carved footstalls which are wrapped up by neoclassical, even martial feeling.

Días de Septiembre - Días de Septiembre (2011)

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Subwise
Lastfm

8.5

/Post-rock, Epic, Experimental rock, Indie rock, Alternative pop/rock/

Comment: a massive and winsome rock blowup from Caracas, Venezuela. As regarding the concept of die-hard post-rock whenever you may admit that it is business as usual because of being compiled of a bunch of guitar layers, penetrating guitar gears, punching drums, which is spiced up with some electronica inbetween it. Let`s take a ride from the slope of a mountain over to the peak of the mountain and thereafter let`s do contrariwise. Indeed, some guitars are bigger than others.

Nice Age - No Wrong No Right

Dad Lipsticks - Awakening 2007-2010 (2011)

Umor Rex

8.7

/Primitive pop, Primitronica, 8-bit, Folktronica, Chiptune, Crososver, DIY, Hip-hop, Experimental electronica, Sampledelic, Musique concrète, Lo-fi, Electronic pop/

Comment: on the Myspace site of Dad Lipsticks the soundscape of him is described as idiots kissing. If these are about kissing then they are essentially very short kisses (37 notches in all). The tracks do chime almost as angular and low bit-ish as chiptune music used to do. In fact, electro pop is mixed up with chiptune numbers at times. I would entitle it as a sort of clockwork electronica where cannot be overrated the factor of original sounds. Onward, weird bonds with hip-hop, power-drenched electronica, folk and more dream-filled layers, however, it displays its indecisiveness because of having had no certain direction to be chosen. Yet, the ultimate result of it seems to be intricate and pleasant simultaneously.

Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down (2011)

Soundcloud

7.7

/Pop rock, Electro-rock, Pomp rock/

Comment: it is a single by Johan Reinhold, a Swedish Grammy nominated indie electro pop artist who is influenced by Gayngs, Nikki and the Dove, Miike Snow and Portishead. The notch is produced and arranged by Astma & Rocwell, and onward Lasse Mortén took care of post-production and engineering. Shoot Me Down is a bombastic effort with hard rock guitar riffs, mellow backdrops and cloying footstalls, and some shamanic vowel effects in the ending part. Unfortunately, it is way too predictable and without any vulnerable (read: intricate) corners within it.

Tobias Borelius - Du känner mig för väl, farväl (2011)

23 Seconds
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Jamendo
Lastfm

8.7

/Indie pop, Indietronica, Poptronica, Electronic pop, Singer-songwriter, Acid pop, Lo-fi/

Comment: this is a relatively short-running, in Swedish sung album. At these 8 tracks may be detected for two tendencies. Sprawling acoustic pop is imbued with a slight touch of electronica, and on the other side it is created with the intention for more electronic-driven ditties. At times it used to be more restraint, sometimes more sunshiny and charming, however, exploiting symphonic keyboards, New Wave-ish synth thudding and effects. At Smaragdgröna Parker is exploited 8-bit/tracker music-alike cadences as if falling to a numerous of dull-coloured smithereens. The favorite of mine is Arkitekten (featuring Lotta Wenglèn), a gloomy gem.

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION - Seduction of the Armageddon Witches

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